The Iber settlement of El Molí d’Espígol (The Lavender Mill) was built on a site that stands a little higher than the majority of the Urgell plain. The settlement, which dates from the end of the 6th or beginning of the 5th century BC, is one of the best developed examples of early urbanism to be found in the Lands of Lleida. At its time, this was a political and commercial centre of the first magnitude and the centre of an area whose economy revolved around agriculture and livestock herding.

The general urbanistic layout corresponds to this intensive economic activity: the houses are very complex, being divided into different parts, including paved rooms that were used as storerooms. Some of the streets had channels beneath the paving in order to carry away rain water. With the arrival of the Romans, the settlement went into decline and was finally abandoned.

How to get there
Access to the site is from the 10 km point on the LV-3231 from Tornabous to Agramunt. Having passed the village, visitors should follow a sign-posted dirt track that leads off to the right.